Connecticut western news., 1887-06-01
THE SPORTING WORLD.
TURF AND TRACK, YACHTING
 AND BASE BALL GOSSIP.
The Current Chat about Pedestrians
 Pugilists, Etc.

LEAauE-Including the games played May ?, the Detroits have won 20, lost 4; Boston has won F, lost z; New York has won IA, lost To-; Philadelphia has won 12, lost 12; Plttsburg has won g, lost 12; Chicago won 9, lost IA Wash- ngton has won z, lost IA, and Indianapolis has won @ 5 lost 90. ASSOCIATION Louis has won 25, lost 5; Baltimore has won 17 and lost n: Brooklyn has won 15, lost 12; Louisville aas won 17, lost 14, Athletic has won 15, lost l4; Cincinnati has won 16, lost 16; Cleveland has won 6, lost 9, and the Metropolltans have won ,. lost 23
 President spaulding thinks that change in the pitching rules will be found necessary. Pitchers" he says, ''are breaking up too fast under the present rules"
 The new steel sloop building for Gen. Paine will probably be launched in about five weeks. She will then be lowed to Boston and fitted at the yard of Lawley X Sons. Her sail pan will be much like the Mayaowers, with trif1e more hoist at the peak of the mainsail. Her fore stay will be of steel and will lead to the gam mon iron.
 -'For about two weeks before the mill comes off soak your hands several times daily in mixed of alum, salt, tannic acid, copperas, vinegar, horseradish and saltpetre. This leaves only the bones and skin, and makes the hand like sandpaper," is the advice of an old trainer to an aspirant for fistic honors. The Mayf1ower is about ready for work. She will go on the ways at Boston before go- ing to New York for regatta week. The cutter Stranger is at anchor at Boston Her new suit of sails by Lapthorne has been bent and she is in fine shape. She means to have the gore of the Titania and Shamrock if she can get it.
 The claimant to the broad acres of the Tich. borne estate in England, known generally as Sir Roger Tichborne, or Arthur Orton, IS ac- cepting challenges to shoot clay pigeons. He is said to be very good shot.
 The second match of the American football la- .l- tory for the local team of Galt by two goals to one.
 The Titania has been put on the ways ta have her bottom examined. It was believed | that some slight damage had been done il launching.
 We are perfectly willing, says Chicago l paper, to believe that Mike Kelly's retirement l clubs ability at base ball playing, but we | would like to have a demonstration ot thii | proposition, which, we understand, the great economic and managerial lights of the clul l are fond of advancing on every occasion. IT l spite of all that President Spalding ane | that cannot well be left out of consideration | First, that when Kelly was member of thu | Chicago club that club won & very
 large majority of games; second, tha
 ever since Kelly left the club it ha
 been losing games steadily; third, tha
 when Kelly dropped out of several of the Bos
 ton games the Bostons lost, and fourth, tha
 the Bostons have won whenever Kelly played
 with them. We have remarked on numerous
 occasions that the beauty of Kelly's playing
 was not so much in the amount of the wood h.
 sawed as in the way he sawed it. He iSr!
 brainy fellow, and he is full of artifces, ofIe
 sources, of wiles and subterfuges; he hasre
 duced base ball to a science, and as manipu
 lator of nine upon the field he is. head ant
 shoulders above any other professional in bas
 ball to-day.
 The recent trial of the Atlantic, Sham | rock and Priscilla was not satisfactory. Fol
 and streaky wind interfered with it. Some O
 the Priscilla's people say she outsailed th
 Atlantic and some are emphatic in their sup
 port of this statement. On the other hanc
 some of the most experienced yachtsmen wht
 were on the Priscilla say it was impossible t
 tell anything with certainty owing to tn
 weather: All agree that the Atlantic seemed
 to sail faster than, she did last year, and t
 stand up to her canvas, much better. Tn
 Priscilla's canvas will probably need some al
 terations before it is in racing trim. Th'
 Shamrock's sails set we'll, but she had no op
 portunity to show what she could do.